Lessons in Parenting - Letting Kids Stumble
Posted 4 days 11 hours ago by Fred Lee
Sometimes being a good parent means taking a step back and letting kids make mistakes.Teen
Becoming a Work-At-Home Mom: Avoiding Scams
Posted 1 week 5 days ago by Lori Kerrigan
Are you trying to work-from-home? When searching for a work-from-home job one important thing to look out for is scams...if it looks too good to be true, it just might be!
Is The New 90210 Not That Bad?
Posted 2 weeks 2 days ago by Linsey Knerl
I was prepared to hate this remake of my favorite teen drama growing up. After all, it had gotten the Parent’s Television Council to call for a boycott after only the first show. Not being one to let anyone make decisions for my family, I decided to screen the show myself. My findings were shocking -- but not in the way you would think.
Name That Cough: A Mom's Guide to What Ails 'Em
Posted 3 weeks 2 days ago by Linsey Knerl
It's that time of year. School has started, and even though we home school, we're officially “carriers” for the latest form of kiddie plague. The coughing has come full-force, and I lay awake at night listening to tiny hacks and moans, wondering what more I could do. Here's an official guide to the most common causes, and what you can do to help.
Date Night In
Posted 7 weeks 4 days ago by Sherry Pardy
Can't get out for a date? Why not bring Date Night In!
The Death of the Neighborhood
Posted 8 weeks 6 days ago by Corina Fiore
I miss the olden days. You know, the olden days like 20 years ago. Life seemed different then. You belonged to a community, a neighborhood. The people in your neighborhood were part of your extended family. At some point in the last 20 years, the neighborhood has succumbed to death.
Read, Read, Read: Why Quantity and Quality Fail Our Kids
Posted 9 weeks 4 days ago by Fred Marmorstein
Children's ability to read with conviction is still being undermined by our educational institutions.
Webspeak part 1 - become fluent in one of the online languages your children use
Posted 11 weeks 18 hours ago by Paul Michael
Once upon a time, it was Pig-Latin. These days, the Internet has created several ways for both children and adults to communicate with each other. In part one of this series, I'll give you a list of the most common acronyms or "initialisms" that your children are using daily, via the web and phone. Some of these you will be familiar with already; some may shock you.
Food Additives May Contribute to ADHD in Children
Posted 11 weeks 1 day ago by Fred Lee
The time has come to give more credibility to the notion that we are what we eat.
Kids Eat Free....Or Really Cheap
Posted 11 weeks 6 days ago by Lori Kerrigan
Tired of cooking? Does your budget not stretch enough to cover dining out with the entire family? Check out these restaurants where kids eat free....or really cheap!
Computer-based Homeschool Curriculum Worked for Us!
Posted 14 weeks 10 hours ago by Linsey Knerl
When I started homeschooling a few years ago, I was excited to order the materials – which included more books, manuals, worksheets, and supplemental items than I could possibly store on our bookshelf. The practicality of “traditional” text-based curriculum soon wore thin. Read on to see how software saved the day.
Shared Parenting: Why it Works for Us
Posted 14 weeks 4 days ago by Sherry Pardy
According to a recent New York Times article, the fact my husband does the laundry makes us trendy parents. Who knew?
Old MacDonald had some Suckers
Posted 14 weeks 5 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
As a mostly vegetarian, hippie genX-er--a non-TV watching, non-consumer driven parent-- I have purposely failed my children miserably by hiding from them vital cultural icons of American life. But all that is about to change with two Happy Meals...
Kid Friendly Trips with TripFlix
Posted 15 weeks 1 day ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Gas prices have you and the kids home for the summer? You might want to give the interactive DVD TripFlix a try and do some couch traveling in an air conditioned living room with teens Alex and Emily to 25 destinations across the USA.
Gay Parenting, Part 2
Posted 15 weeks 3 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Wow. It really is happening. All across California gays and lesbians are getting married. Their children, we children will all be legitimized in a way we haven't been before. I spent the weekend talking to a gay dad raising sons (being Father's Day weekend) here's what's been tripping around my conversations. I talked to a few women on the verge of marriage. Here's what I heard and remembered.
Please Stop Giving Advice.
Posted 15 weeks 4 days ago by Corina Fiore
The picture represents how I feel about unsolicited or absolute advice: angry and annoyed. I often ignore advice, shake my head in agreement, and move on my way. I wasn't always that way, and I was reminded of the havoc unsolicited advice can reap on a family when reading a message board this week.
What College Admissions Officers Won’t Tell You And More
Posted 17 weeks 5 days ago by Julie Rains
College admissions officers try to position their colleges as selective by spouting statistics that make acceptance seem elusive. They may tell you, for example, that the university received 12,000 applications for 1,600 openings in its freshman class. You may assume that the university has an acceptance rate of 13.33% but your math (though reasonable) would be wrong. I’ll tell you what college admissions officers won’t tell you and more.
Success in High School: 4 Ways to Help 9th Graders
Posted 19 weeks 3 days ago by Fred Marmorstein
High school can easily become overwhelming for any teenager. Starting high school from day one with a solid foundation can ensure success and continued constructive development for an entire four years.
American Idol – Family Friendly or Adult TV?
Posted 19 weeks 3 days ago by Lori Kerrigan
American Idol is a favorite in households across the world, but is it really appropriate for young minds?
Explaining Gay and Lesbian identitites to the Kids, Part 1
Posted 20 weeks 23 hours ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
With Friday’s State Supreme Court ruling in California the possibility of my mothers being able to marry legally in our state has come up once again. Yay! We are all very excited and hope that wedding bells will ring for our lesbian mothers after twenty years (longer than most of the hetero marriages we know have lasted. So, the only question that remains is what do we tell the children and when? And does it even matter?
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